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A: Fachverband Atomphysik
A 26: Poster Session II
A 26.43: Poster
Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 17:00–19:00, P OG1
Investigation of two-frequency Paul traps for antihydrogen production — Nathan Leefer1,2, •Kai Krimmel1,3, William Bertsche4,5, Dmitry Budker1,3,2,6, Joel Fajans2, Ron Folman7, Hartmut Häffner2, and Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler1,3 — 1Helmholtz-Institut Mainz, Mainz 55128, Germany — 2Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 — 3QUANTUM, Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit\"at Mainz, Mainz 55128, Germany — 4University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK — 5The Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK — 6Nuclear Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720 — 7Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel
Radio-frequency (rf) Paul traps operated with multifrequency rf trapping potentials provide the ability to independently confine charged particle species with widely different charge-to-mass ratios. In particular, these traps may find use in the field of antihydrogen recombination, allowing antiproton and positron clouds to be trapped and confined in the same volume without the use of large superconducting magnets. We explore the stability regions of two-frequency Paul traps and perform numerical simulations of small samples of multispecies charged-particle mixtures of up to twelve particles that indicate the promise of these traps for antihydrogen recombination.